The Pleasure Diet: Cutting down on wine is not pleasurable (Sorry, mom and dad!)

One of my goals on the Pleasure Diet is to reduce the amount of wine I drink. Specifically, my nutritionist challenged me to have two "dry days" during the work week; then stick to one glass an evening on my non-dry worknights and give myself a tad more leeway on weekends.

Now, I don’t sit around my house and chug bottles of Cabernet, but I do go out to dinner with friends a lot (almost every night) and typically have a glass or two (and occasionally more) of wine. That really adds up, calorically speaking. But food and wine are great pleasures in my life–one of the joys of traveling for me is discovering local wines, quizzing bartenders about grapes and varietals and of course sampling everything. And this diet is supposed to be about pleasure, right? So is it possible to cut back on wine and not feel deprived? What do you think?